A page heading (or "header") is one or more lines of text that appear in the top margin of the page. Sprint supports multiple-line headers, and lets you specify how text should be formatted in the heading. You can place heading text at the left margin, aligned at the right margin, or centered between the left and right margins. Headings can also alternate; for example, you can have one page heading for odd-numbered pages and another for even-numbered pages. Header commands can appear anywhere in your docu-ment. The text of the page heading will appear on all pages following the command.
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If you want the same header to appear on all pages except the first, choose All Pages. Sprint then inserts two commands-BEGIN and END HEADER-with a blank line between them. You type the page heading text between the two lines. For example, to print the text User's Manual at the top of every page except the first, choose Layout/Header/All Pages, and type User's Manual. This text will appear in the heading margin (.5 inch from the top of the page) and will begin printing at the left margin.
If you want the header text aligned at the right margin rather than at the left, choose Layout/Header, then choose Insert/Wide Space (Spring) before you type the text of the header. The Wide Space command tells the format-ter to push text over to the right margin. (You can also insert a ruler line within the header to set justification, margins, and centering.)
Let's say you want text to print at the left and right margins, and in the center of the header line. For example, the header text might be:
User's Manual January 10,1989 First Draft
To do this, choose Layout/Header/All Pages, type User's Manual, choose Insert/Wide Space (Spring), and then type January 10, 1989. You'll notice
that the Wide Space command pushes the date over to the right margin.
Now choose Wide Space again, and type First Draft. The date moves to the center of the line, and the words First Draft appear at the right margin.
You can set up alternating headers so that one header line appears on odd-numbered pages and another, different header line appears on even-numbered pages. To define headers for even pages, choose Layout/
Header /Even Pages and type the heading text for even-numbered pages.
Likewise, to define headers for odd pages, choose Layout/Header/Odd Pages and type the heading text for odd-numbered pages.
Use the Position command to specify exactly what distance from the top of the page you want the header to print. The default is 0.5 inch from the top of the page.
To create multiple-line headers, simply press Enter at the end of each header line and type the next line of header text. The formatter will print all header lines that appear between the BEGIN and END HEADER commands. For example,
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END HEADER
Annual Report March 15, 1989 For internal review only!
If you want to stop page headings from appearing at some point in your document, choose a new Header command, but don't enter any text between the BEGIN and END HEADER commands. This tells the formatter to leave your header lines blank.
If you want to include a page number in a header, choose Insert/Variable/
Page anywhere in the header text. Sprint prompts you to pick a template for the way the page number will print from a template menu (just highlight any of the choices-for instance arabic-and press Enter).
If you want to adjust the vertical header placement, choose Position from the Header menu. You can then enter any dimension by which you want to offset the header from the top of the page (the default is .5 inches from the top margin). For example, if you want less space between the top of the page and the header, you could enter .25. The header would appear .25 inches above the text area (and .75 inches from the top of the page, assuming the top margin remains at the default of one inch).
Also, a single document can have more than one header. Simply create a new header at the spot in your document where you want it to change. The next printed page will have the new header.
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You can also use a ruler line to format your header. Just be sure to insert the ruler immediately after the BEGIN HEADER command. This ruler will affect only the header at print time, but you should still insert another default ruler after the END HEADER command; that way, any text following the header will be shown onscreen according to the default ruler, not the ruler you used to format the header.
If you want a title page for your document, choose Title Page from the Layout menu. Then enter a title (multiple lines are fine). At print time, Sprint will create a title page with your text centered in the middle of the page. To put a header on the title page, choose Layout/Header/Title Page and type text for the header (to appear only on the title page).